The recent spike in violence includes more than a dozen people shot over the weekend – nearly half of which were deadly – to go along with two more homicides on Monday.

“This is an ongoing fight and the criminal element on the street is not giving up, and neither are we,” Rawlings-Blake said.

Police have said that most of the violence is being committed by small groups of people. Davis said that the source of the crime spike is gang violence, but gave no other details.

Davis and the mayor said the new round of public safety forums will allow city and police leaders to share plans to reduce violence while community members can give feedback and ideas of their own much like similar forums held last year.

“We want to hear the concerns, we want to hear the critiques, we want to hear the things that will inevitably make us better,” Davis said.

Rawlings-Blake said that the forums last year influenced the plan for police body cameras among other things involving transparency.

"We know that there is no way we can become a safer city without working together,” Rawlings-Blake said. “That's why these forums are so critical and we also know that despite all of our efforts over past two years, too many continue to die in Baltimore.”

As part of the fight on crime, Rawlings-Blake and Davis said that meetings have already started in the war room, part of a renewed idea they announced on Sunday.

“This set up affords us 24/7 coverage where a BPD detective is sitting across from an ATF detective who’s sitting next to an FBI agent. And already today, we've been able to put pieces of this puzzle together,” Davis said.